Roßkopf (Taunus)

Taunus ridge with Rosskopf (center right)

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The Rosskopf is a 632 m high mountain in the Taunus. A transmitter system is at its peak in the middle of the ring wall Roßkopf.

Location

The Roßkopf located in Hochtaunuskreis on the border between Wehrheim and Bad Homburg. On elongated summit ridge, which still exceeds the surveyed point to a few meters, is a smaller, telecommunication equipment, in addition, the summit with dense coniferous forest is passed.

He is the only significant elevation ( 1620 m dominance, prominence 37 m) in the long Taunus ridge between the road crossing at Sandplacken and the castle hall. Are to Roßkopf nor the north-east ridge lined paragraphs gravel Hubel ( 632.8 m), Holler head ( 615.5 m) and white stone ( 550.7 m ) and the adjacent wooded hilltop southwest expected hermit ( 606.6 m). In the southeast of Roßkopf forms a large, steep shoulder, Herzberg ( 591.4 m) with observation tower and restaurant. In the eastern flank of Herzberg's come on the beautiful marble stone higher rocky ridges -days.

About the comb was the Roman Limes border. So here are, inter alia, the foundations of a watchtower to find. Along the ridge continues to run the European long-distance path E1 and the Limes hiking trail. Half a kilometer south-west rises in a striking basin at Habig Born with the Heuchelbach a swelling stream of Eschbach, a tributary of the Nidda. At the foot of the far northern edge of the Roßkopfes the Open Air Museum Hesse Park is located.

Routes to the summit

The mountain can be reached with little height difference across the Taunus mountains main ridge from the southwest of Sandplacken. However, the most recommendable because of its brighter deciduous forests, steeper relief and the wonderful vantage point on the marble stone increase results from the north-east from the Inn ( 392 m) at the Saalburg on King William Walk, marble stone and Herzberg.